<see inline comments> -- ======================================================================== Rocky McGaugh Atipa Linux Solutions Linux Systems Engineer www.atipa.com rocky@smluc.org rmcgaugh@atipa.com ======================================================================== On Wed, 19 Jan 2000, Omar Armas Aleman wrote:
All my life I have used redhat and im changing to suse.
you must be young..:) (just kidding..heh)
I have tried installing in suse some rpm's built for redhat and it worked(a portsentry rpm i did), but i want to know if there's a restriction on what rpm's will work fine and which won't. I guess the main problem is location of initscript or conf. files. Can someone explain me what redhat's rpm's can I use and which I can't?
main problems i've run into is the dependancies on the 'chkconfig' rpm. redhat has that function stuff where SuSE has the startproc and all. depending on the RPM, sometimes i'll force it in, and then re-write the rc files to match SuSE's design. i usually copy /etc/rc.d/smb for this, because i think its a clear-er skel than the /etc/rc.d/skeleton. at the moment, i cant think of the exact differences in the RH rc scripts, and luckily all our inhouse servers are SuSE, so i dont have a RH box to look at easily...:)
Another question, in redhat the network configuration is stored in /etc/sysconfig/network, what's the equivalent in suse?
SuSE keeps all their main config in a file called /etc/rc.config. A program 'SuSEconfig' sources the settings in rc.config and actually makes the changes to the system. Also, many services are toggled on and off in /etc/rc.config, and the init scripts will check rc.config before actually starting a service.
Can you mention any other important difference in file locations?
Thanks.
Omar
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